Don’t look away. Your life depends on it.

The world has never been good for me. I cannot make my life great again because my life never was great.

I’ve had little pockets of happiness from time to time, but overall my entire life has been a fight to survive.

It has been a fight to be recognized as a person.

I have never known peace in my life ever. Because even if I’m happy in one part of my life I’m always fighting the government. I’m always mistreated by society.

Every day I have had to deal with some form of abuse.

School.
Work.
My hometown.
In public.
Everywhere but the sanctuary of my adult home – the first place I’ve ever been treated like a human being all the time.

All I’ve ever wanted as a disabled person and as a trans person is to have a little peace to just live my life.

That’s all any of us who are mistreated really want. We want others to leave us alone in peace to live our lives the way we want to. We are not hurting anyone.

So why do people have to relentlessly hurt us?

And so many people just look away. They ignore it. They don’t want to admit it happens.

If the world keeps going this way, all of you who are not dealing with this will eventually be like this. You won’t be a billionaire so you will be abused every single day.

You won’t be able to hide between your vacations, your concerts, the fun you have. Eventually you won’t even be able to have fun because you won’t have access to it.

I don’t want that for any of you.

All of the writing I’ve done has been me begging all of you to listen. Because I don’t want this to happen to all of you.

I don’t want this to still happen to people like me. We deserve peace.

When we get peace, everyone has peace.

And by we I mean trans people, immigrants, many disabled people, Black folks, Indigenous folks. People who are relentlessly mistreated by society, the government, and other systems that benefit few.

We are fighting for everyone right now and many people are just ignoring this still.

Don’t look away. Your life depends on it.